“A SLIPPERY SLOPE”
BISHOPS AND WOMEN DEACONS LONDON, June 7. “We are on a slippery slope and should learn a lesson from experience in secular matters,” said the Bishop of Durham, Dr Hensley Henson, addressing the Convocation of Canterbury on the position of deaconesses in the Church. There was no sphere of the public service, Dr Henson added, into which women were not pressing, and the mass of English church people did not realise what was on the way. If the diaconate were given to women, it would probably be the preliminary to their admission to the priesthood, even to the episcopate. The Bishop of Manchester, Dr Warman, said that woman had contributed, with the greatest advantage, to the common weal. Convocation approved the appointment of a committee to consider the question. The Archbishop of York, Dr Temple', moved for the appointment of a committee to consider the holding of the Church Congress every three or five years instead of every year. Dr Henson said he thought that very great harm was being done by excessive talk. He hoped congress would be abolished.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21362, 16 June 1931, Page 7
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